Online course: Build brand mental availability for zero-click behavior
Build the brand system that keeps you in buyers’ shortlists when AI answers their questions
Instructor: Louis Grenier, positioning expert & author
Advised Hotjar on brand positioning vs. Google Analytics, flipped a struggling business to $2M profit, and guided €30M+ ARR SaaS brands to stand the f*ck out.

Access existing audiences, develop distinctive assets, and develop a POV to grow pipeline with trigger-based strategies.
- Understand why traffic and channels are no longer reliable for pipeline growth.
- Apply co-marketing and personal branding tactics to access audiences where they already spend their attention.
- Create distinctive brand assets that make your brand memorable.
- Develop a clear point-of-view and design content strategies that build mental availability with buyers.
- Build trigger-based strategies to be top of mind.

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Traffic is tanking. Pipeline is flattening. Channels are dying.
Search results now answer questions without clicks. Content gets buried by algorithms. Your reliable channels seem to be dying. The Borrow-Brand-Control (BBC) Framework shows B2B marketers how to build pipeline through brand mental availability (instead of chasing traffic that’s never coming back).
When AI search picks up your brand, make sure buyers remember you and put you on their shortlist.
Part 01: Overview
Discovery now happens across search, AI, social, communities, and peer conversations. The BBC framework (borrow, brand, control) helps you decide where to show up, build mental availability, and stay remembered when buyers create shortlists off-site.
- The zero-click reality
- Why brand is now make-or-break
- What is the Borrow-Brand-Control (BBC) framework?
Part 02: BORROW – Accessing existing audiences
Borrowing helps you earn trust faster by showing up where your ICP already pays attention. The focus is finding the right channels, partnering with the people behind them, and using co-marketing or opt-in personal brand plays to reach buyers without spamming them.
- Identifying where your prospects already spend attention
- Co-marketing approaches that stand the f*ck out
- Helping your team build their personal brands
Part 03: BRAND – Develop distinctive assets
Brand helps buyers remember you before they start comparing options. Repeated exposure, recognizable signals, and meaning-free assets make your company easier to recall, while category audits show where your branding blends in instead of standing out.
- Building a suite of assets that stands the f*ck out
- Three asset discovery methods
Part 04: CONTROL – Own the narrative
Control keeps your message consistent as your brand shows up across more channels. A clear POV gives your assets and messaging a shared direction, while the CHIPS framework helps protect your segment, guide decisions, and keep your positioning coherent everywhere buyers encounter you.
- Understanding buyer triggers in your market
- Developing a point-of-view that cuts through
- Content strategies that build mental availability
Meet your instructor
Louis Grenier is the no-BS voice behind Everyone Hates Marketers and the author of Stand the F*ck Out. With years of experience working with top SaaS and tech brands (like Hotjar and Dropbox), Louis is known for cutting through marketing fluff and helping businesses win more of the right clients.

Some of his accomplishments include:
- His podcast, Everyone Hates Marketers, reached more than 2M downloads over the last eight years, with more than 30,000 followers across platforms, competing with podcasts with huge budgets and deep pockets.
- His book, Stand The F*ck Out, pulled in over €30,000 in sales in just two weeks, and it’s rated 4.8/5 on Amazon.
- He’s advised companies like Dropbox, Phorest Salon Software, LatinUs Beauty, PTDC, Leadsie, 900.care… and helped Hotjar reposition itself to go toe-to-toe with Google Analytics.
- He helped Hotjar reposition from ‘all-in-one analytics & feedback’ to ‘behavior analytics,’ making it the complement to traditional tools like Google Analytics.


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After one session you will have shipped one new AI workflow you need on the job.
Every session after, your output and efficiency compounds.
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